The dev reasoning is still bad. His argument is that roots must be homogenised. Which is dumb. Hunters don’t have the type of utility to justify taking even more away.
He also said the existence of Scatter Shot and Hi-Explosive Trap makes up for it. Nonsense. Scatter shot is a choice node with Binding Shot so we can’t have both at the same time, and Explosive Trap is on the same node as Intimidation which also restricts its relevance for BM and SV in PvE.
Reminder: In MoP we had Scatter Shot baseline, Explosive Trap knockback as a glyph, and Binding Shot/Intimidation as talents on the same row. So we really are fighting over scraps of what we used to have 10 years ago.